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board hijacked

Started by smauro8808, April 11, 2021, 09:19:11 AM

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smauro8808

Hello,
my board was hijacked and the admin accounts removed. is there anyone that knows how to regain control,
and possibly check for security issues that I am un- aware of?  I am willing to pay for your time and service.

kind regards,
SM

you can call or PM back
Thanks!
863-3279139

Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen

What version were you running?
Other than that, for now I'll just repeat what I believe I just sent you in reply to your email.

Some good news, there are ways to recreate an admin in an SMF install
https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Administration_-_I_accidentally_lost_my_admin_account!_What_can_I_do

Then the bad news, this would require you have access to the server.
We do not host any forums ourselves, and so we have no access to help with
recovery. If you are not self hosted, you may need to reach out to your
host.

Also, if you have been hacked, after recovery and diagnosis, it would be
in your best interest to revert to a clean backup - to a time before the
hack happened, because you have no way of knowing what the hacker might
have done to your forum or other hosted files.
https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Hacking_-_I_think_I_have_been_hacked

If you weren't up to date ( Current stable version is 2.0.18 ) then I would
strongly suggest updating as soon as possible after recovery as well.
Slava
Ukraini!


"Before you allow people access to your forum, especially in an administrative position, you must be aware that that person can seriously damage your forum. Therefore, you should only allow people that you trust, implicitly, to have such access." -Douglas

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Also change your FTP password right away, making sure that the new password is a STRONG PASSWORD

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